Chris Combs is an artist working with technology in Washington, D.C.

About Chris

Chris Combs's artworks respond to pressing themes of surveillance, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic failure—and to the viewer, using facial recognition and motion sensing.

He employs a wide range of practices to create circuit boards, software, and enclosures for interactive and time-based wood, metal, and found-object sculptures, which both embrace and question technology.

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Art Machines | 07 Sep 2023

POET.EXE

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Art | 07 Jul 2023

An Hour with ELIZA

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Art | 07 Jul 2023

Cryptid Currencies

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Art Machines | 07 Jul 2023

MacAffy’s Anti-Viral "Revigorator"

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Art Machines | 07 Jul 2023

Pollination

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Art Machines | 07 Jul 2023

Targeting

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Art Machines | 28 Jun 2023

Booleans (Flanders Bay)

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Art Machines | 01 Jun 2023

Reinvention Garage

Art Machines | 09 May 2023

Daybreak

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Art Machines | 09 May 2023

S(p)lash

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Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

Backdriven (Driven Back)

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Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

Birdsight (Develop/Validate/Acquire)

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Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

Black Box

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Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

Enigma #QAL

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Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

Honeypot

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Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

Margins (JTNP)

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Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

Shy Light

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Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

Sync/Desync MARL-3

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Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

Takes

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Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

This Machine Hates Kids

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Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

Uncontrollable Light

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Art Machines | 13 Apr 2023

Vaporware

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Art Machines | 25 Feb 2023

Cluster

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Art Machines | 13 Oct 2022

Hammond BIVALVE

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Art Machines | 13 Oct 2022

Hammond COCOON

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Art Machines | 13 Oct 2022

Hammond GEODE

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Art Machines | 13 Oct 2022

Rootball INSPECTION

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Art Machines | 13 Oct 2022

Rootball INTROSPECTION

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Art Machines | 24 Aug 2022

Demon Core

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Art Machines | 24 Aug 2022

Plans

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Art | 09 Jul 2022

Data Chains

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Art Machines | 09 Jul 2022

Feedback Loop

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Art Machines | 09 Jul 2022

Illegal in Illinois

Art Machines | 09 Jul 2022

Morale is Mandatory (Algorithm Livery)

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Art Machines | 09 Jul 2022

Print/Shred

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Art | 09 Jul 2022

Probing DALL-E Mini

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Art | 09 Jul 2022

Probing GauGAN2

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Art | 09 Jul 2022

Probing ImageNet

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Art Machines | 09 Jul 2022

Snap Judgment

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Art Machines | 01 Jun 2022

F2G (Spoon Theory)

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Art Machines | 05 May 2022

Lepidopterism

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Art Machines | 28 Apr 2022

Stump/Sandia

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Art Machines | 20 Mar 2022

Blurred Words

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Art Machines | 20 Mar 2022

Forces

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Art Machines | 15 Feb 2022

Alight

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Art Machines | 20 Jan 2022

Clear-Cut

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Art Machines | 03 Dec 2021

Bulkhead

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Art Machines | 18 Nov 2021

65 Failures

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Art Machines | 06 Nov 2021

Sync/Desync Micro

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Art Machines | 06 Nov 2021

Sync/Desync R/G/B Micro

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Art Machines | 25 Sep 2021

DataWorld 2021: booth 313, Maelstrom Networks, Inc.

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Art Machines | 03 Sep 2021

Bayering

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Art Machines | 03 Sep 2021

One-to-Many

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Art Machines | 03 Sep 2021

Orchestration (Beeswax)

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Art Machines | 03 Sep 2021

Subset

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Art Machines | 15 Jun 2021

16 Bits (9:06:08) I

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Art Machines | 15 Jun 2021

Sync/Desync I

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Art Machines | 09 Apr 2021

Madness Method

Art Machines | 16 Jan 2021

Maelstrom

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Art Machines | 03 Oct 2020

Iteration (Transmission IV)

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Art Machines | 02 Oct 2020

Gateway (Transmission III)

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Art Machines | 02 Oct 2020

Side Guide Control

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Art Machines | 01 Oct 2020

Resolution (Transmission II)

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Art Machines | 07 Aug 2020

16 Bits (9:06:08) Micro-A

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Art Machines | 07 Aug 2020

16 Bits (9:06:08) Micro-B

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Art Machines | 07 Aug 2020

8 Bits (2:08) Micro-B

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Online Art | 27 Jun 2020

Closely Held

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Art Machines | 28 May 2020

Loopback (Transmission I)

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Art Machines | 01 Apr 2020

Morale is Mandatory

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Art Machines | 01 Apr 2020

Point of Sale

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Art Machines | 01 Apr 2020

Thermoelectric Candle I

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Art Machines | 29 Dec 2019

Road Ahead

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Art Machines | 28 Dec 2019

Impressions

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Art Machines | 10 Oct 2019

Rxsqtta-Stzne

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Art Machines | 25 Jul 2019

Naked Mueller

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Art Machines | 01 Jul 2019

Campfire

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Art Machine | 02 Apr 2019

Publish/Perish

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Art Machines | 04 Nov 2018

Fireflies

Art Machine | 07 Jul 2018

The Heart Says...

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Art Machine | 26 Apr 2018

I see you there.

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Art Machine | 26 Apr 2018

Two Minutes Hate

Art Machine | 25 Apr 2018

Feeling Lucky

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Art Machine | 22 Apr 2018

Eyes

Art Machine | 20 Apr 2018

Extraction Potential

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Art Machine | 20 Apr 2018

Our Time Together II

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Art Machine | 25 Mar 2018

Bureautron

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Art Machine | 15 Mar 2018

Wave/Wave

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Art Machine | 15 Feb 2018

Security Theater?

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Art Machine | 10 Jan 2018

Just Helping

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Art Machine | 24 Jul 2017

Digital Daguerreotype

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Art Machine | 27 Feb 2017

ZIP/ZCTA Deaccessioning Console

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Art Machine | 19 Jan 2017

Markov Radio

On display Available

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